Maximum t1_iyrp93n wrote on December 3, 2022 at 5:19 PM

Reply to comment by enjinseoul in OpenAI ChatGPT [R] by Sea-Photo5230

The idea of assignments is to force yourself to solve a problem not tell someone else (AI or not) to solve for you, you can name it whatever you want but it's cheating

Jeffy29 t1_iyytd4r wrote on December 5, 2022 at 4:42 AM

While I agree with you, the same thing can be said about calculators but at some point, we determined it's okay to use the calculators if you know the basics, because there will never be a time you won't have a calculator near you so these days using calculators is natural in higher learning, even very complex ones. If AI like this (and one day much smarter than this) will become as ubiquitous as calculators won't it change how we teach people just like we did with the calculators?

Though it's way too soon to have this conversation, this is very immature technology right now, but I think this will one day create a discussion in society.

Maximum t1_iyziqwo wrote on December 5, 2022 at 10:11 AM

If the assignment is a multiplication task to learn multiplication, then, of course, using a calculator is cheating. However, if the task includes multiplication but the goal of the idea has nothing to do with multiplication, then sure, go ahead and use a calculator because it will get you there faster.

These systems, on the other hand, are very capable. You can actually ask them to do a whole assignment or important parts of it, and often, they will do it. Some models scored more than average in multiple tasks. I can imagine that in a year or two, it will be rather easy to access these kinds of systems, but which will be much better than average in all tasks. Let's see what brings us GPT-4, which will be here at the latest February according to rumours.

maskedpaki t1_iz896ds wrote on December 7, 2022 at 4:49 AM

thats the whole point tho.

its like maybe we just wont do low level code anymore and will just shift to higher level abstractions. Its not like anyone writes in assembly code anymore for example. In a graduate cs program you dont spend more than a few weeks on basic assembly code nowadays. So professors will just have to assign higher level problems that dont involve you coding every for-loop or typing out every class.